Honto no Honyaku no Hanashi wo shiyo (Shincho Bunko)

[Machine Translation] "Translation is like salt crackers, and novels are like chocolate. Haruki Murakami, a "translator" who says, "If I eat them alternately and then have a cat, as much time as I want to spend with it, the time will pass. This is a must-read collection of dialogues between Haruki Murakami and his close friend Motoyuki Shibata, in which the two men, who have received a great deal from foreign literature, talk about the joys of translation and reveal the secrets of the "writer" Haruki Murakami's creative work in a manner that seems surprisingly eloquent.

“翻訳は塩せんべいで、小説はチョコレート。交互に食べて、あとは猫がいれば、いくらでも時間が過ぎちゃう”という「翻訳家」村上春樹が、盟友・柴田元幸とともに語り合った対話全14本。海外文学から多くのものを受けとった二人が、翻訳という仕事の喜びを語りつつ、意外とも思える饒舌さで「作家」村上春樹の創作の秘密が明かされる必読の対話集。7本の対話を追加した「増補決定版」。